Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Tens of Thousands Rally Against Berlusconi in Rome
December 7th, 2009Via: BBC: Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Rome, demanding the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The No B (Berlusconi) Day march was organised by grassroots groups via the internet and social networking sites. Mr Berlusconi faces separate tax fraud and bribery trials after he lost his immunity from prosecution in […]
U.S. Senator Jim Bunning on Ben Bernanke: “Your Fed has become the The Creature from Jekyll Island”
December 5th, 2009Related: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
Chelsea Clinton Engaged to Goldman Sachs Investment Banker
December 3rd, 2009Via: CBS News: Chelsea’s fiancé is an investment banker who works for Goldman Sachs. The two met in Washington as teenagers and both attended Stanford University. Mezvinsky, Miller said, is no stranger to life in the public eye. Both of his parents served in Congress, and his father, Ed Mezvinsky, served time in federal prison […]
European Banks Growing Bigger ‘Sowing the Seeds’ of Next Crisis
December 3rd, 2009Via: Bloomberg: European banks are emerging from the credit crisis bigger than before, posing more risk to their national economies. BNP Paribas SA, Barclays Plc and Banco Santander SA are among at least 353 European lenders that have increased in size since the beginning of 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Fifteen European banks […]
State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples
December 2nd, 2009Via: KXAN: When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit. Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children. Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law […]
Bankers Arming Themselves
December 1st, 2009Big deal. These corporations control the U.S. Military. Have a nice day. Via: Bloomberg: “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a […]
U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto
November 30th, 2009Oh sure. Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies? I’d guess that the answer to that question would […]
Bankers from Rothschild Involved with Dubai Collapse
November 29th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Paul Reynolds, head of Rothschild’s advisory operations in the Middle East, was this week asked to work for the Dubai government’s chief restructuring officer alongside Aidan Birkett of Deloitte, who was appointed on Wednesday. The team is tasked with assessing the group’s assets, which is likely to result in a large scale sell-off […]
Reporter Associated with Bloomberg Lawsuit Against Federal Reserve Dies
November 29th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonkers, New York. He was 52. Pittman suffered from heart-related illnesses. The precise cause of his death wasn’t known, said his friend William […]
Senior Government Officials Killed in Russian Train Attack
November 29th, 2009Via: Guardian: Russia was tonight coming to terms with its most deadly terrorist attack in years after investigators confirmed that a powerful improvised bomb caused Friday’s devastating train crash in which at least 26 people, including several top government officials, were killed. The head of Russia’s FSB counter-terrorism agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said the bomb, hidden […]
